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Well there's an interesting way to skew statistics ...

An Internet civil rights body has discovered that many printers add an arrangement of yellow dots to each page printed that can allow the authorities to identify the time and date of printing and serial number of the device. 'We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer,' said Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). ... 'Underground democracy movements that produce political or religious pamphlets and flyers, like the Russian samizdat of the 1980s, will always need the anonymity of simple paper documents, but this technology makes it easier for governments to find dissenters,' said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien. 'Even worse, it shows how the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers. The logical next question is: what other deals have been or are being made to ensure that our technology rats on us?' ... All for apprehending p

I hate generalisations.

Um, where? And even if I did that (which I didn't), then that would prove both the depth of my ingenuous and impartial equanimity and the quality of the film. As for comparing Star Wars and Serenity, I think you are forgeting that one was a genre-breaking/defining film that contained entirely new (academy-celebrated, like CGI, and otherwise, like merchandising) categories of film craft, and the other is just another film without advertising. There is a reason that the tripe produced in the last decade is still moving off the shelves; it's the enormity of the impact of SW on society; remember it was as much a SF film as Serenity is a Zom-Rom-Com; SW is a Space Opera. And whilst spending fifty million on advertising doesn't represent the best value, it certainly will give any film a lift. What was missing was the plastic figures inserted into every chocolate-covered, late-onset-diabetes-inducing children's cereal and colouring-in books, and pattern-bombing the cartoon timeslots with child-tempting Firefly toys. Oh, and SW was a children's film, and Serenity wasn't. May the Schwartz be with you.

All we need now is for HK-47 to live several times longer than the age of the galaxy (due to time travel) and to find him smiling at God's Last Message To Creation ...

Team, something beyond my control has ocurred and I will try to update the game asap. Apologies.

Ive never posted the same topic in 2 different threads before and im a Newb <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He hit the button twice and it registered twice... I've seen Ender do it, Eru's done it, Metadigital has done it... You'll do it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, but we all deleted the duplicate threads. Message to n00bz: click on Moderator Options (bottom left of your thread, just above the Start button) and select "- Delete this topic" from the drop-down list.

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It mentions "Mars" and "the last ten percent of the human genome" in the cinema trailer (which looks terrible, btw) but the PC Gamer article inisists that Hell and demons are integral to the plot, even though the advertising is a little - ahh - shy in mentioning the "H" word in the US ...

I would expect that the authorities would not permit a mobile phone in the area; I thought jurists weren't allowed contact with the outside whilst a verdict is being determined (no newspapers, etc), so a telephone seems completely against the rules!

Thanks, looks like a good site. (Doesn't seem to have a big back catalogue, from first impressions.)

I'm off to see it again, now.

I have been known to read whilst riding an exercise bike; usually a magazine (like New Scientist or PC Format or such), but I definitely DO NOT take it easy (soemtimes the jump from one level of difficulty to the next is so great that I lose my place momentarily, for example). I do this to mitigate the boredom of riding a bike indoors. I don't mind running cross-country for hours, though (obviously not reading whilst outside), so it probably is the bike riding aspect that I am most trying to add flavour to. Bad grammar irks me. And people using "b" for Byte. Actually I have quite a few pet peeves, so I will probably add a few over time, as they occur to me. Just had some bad news, so it's difficult to think straight ...

Kinda like Ms Dynamitee-hee ..?

All Things Dull And Ugly - Monty Python All things dull and ugly, All creatures short and squat, All things rude and nasty, The Lord God made the lot. Each little snake that poisons, Each little wasp that stings, He made their brutish venom, He made their horrid wings. All things sick and cancerous, All evil great and small, All things foul and dangerous, The Lord God made them all. Each nasty little hornet, Each beastly little squid, Who made the spikey urchin, Who made the sharks, He did. All things scabbed and ulcerous, All pox both great and small, Putrid, foul and gangrenous, The Lord God made them all. AMEN.

Wednesday 12th October 2005 Nine new updates in Microsoft's latest security bulletin 10:31AM The latest monthly security bulletin from Microsoft reveals no fewer than nine vulnerability updates in October's patch Tuesday. Of these, three are regarded as critical, although in two of these cases, the patches replace previous versions. The new spate of security updates follows a quiet September when Microsoft reported no new vulnerabilities. Although it is impossible to predict what might turn up in the future, the replacement cumulative patches and the absence of patches in September suggests that Microsoft may at last be getting on top of the security issue. In the October bulletin, one of the critical vulnerabilities is in DirectShow - part of DirectX version 7.0 onwards and affects users who have administrative user rights. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. Microsoft has also revealed that there is a double whammy in the Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) and COM+ used in Windows. The vulnerabilities in these services can allow both remote code execution and local elevation of privilege that could allow an attacker to take complete control of the affected system For the average user, the most important is a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer. According to the update, The Microsoft DDS Library Shape Control (Msdds.dll) and other COM objects in Internet Explorer could allow an attacker to take complete control of an affected system. Among the 'Important' category of security updates this month is a problem with client services for Netware, Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects and the Windows Shell that could allow remote execution of code. There is also vulnerability with Plug and Play that could allow a local elevation of privileges. However, in this case, an attacker will need to be able to log in to the system legitimately. Finally there are two 'moderate' vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to redirect an FTP download and a problem with the Network Connection Manager that could leave a network open to a denial of service attack.

Please stop spamming the forum. Use Nike as your inspiration; the more you spam the lower your credibility. kthxbye

1. Don't use an actual email account in plaintext on the internet, especially a forum. It will be farmed by a spam-bot and you will drown in a deluge of spam. 2. Write a cv. Doesn't matter if you haven't obtained a specific qualification, or completed a particular training course; summarise what you have done that is relevant to the job you want (in your case writing). Fortunately, writing is one of those careers where life experience actually adds a lot of value (assuming the basics like spelling and grammar are present), so don't be afraid of what you've done. 3. Here's your challenge: I want an honest description of what an eloquent ex-welder would say to secure a job writing in his chosen field of writing. One page is the target length: make sure you start with ten pages of raw stats, goals, achievements; even do a SWOT analysis on this character (Strengths / Weaknesses, Opportunities / Threats: usually done as part of a Business Plan, which can be used to seek seed capital for a start-up business, for example). Then, think of a company that works in the field where you want to work. For every one of those target companies, investigate them (maybe that is talking to their HR), and try to send your cv to the best person. Enthusiasm for a company is a rare attribute in candidates (especially in these cynical times); quite often you will find that a company might have a half-available vaacany in some other department (and a lot of the time such positions aren't advertised), and someone with initiative and drive is always attractive to the employer, as they are all trying to minimise expenditure, a lot of which is lost in employee turnover. See? Right. Get to it.

She's poking her tongue out behind the sling-shot.

I may have a new avatar soon... :cool: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And a-nother ...

... It's even funnier if you picture that as a fourteen-year-old girl slapping him ...

Says the Hutt!

I can't believe you've never heard of Tankgirl. Remove your geek hoodie and hang your mouse in shame.

Who are the browncoats? Is that some sort of neo-nazi organisation?